Reclining-chair.



PATENTED DEC. 27, 1904.

C. H. BENNETT,

RECLINING CHAIR.

APPLIGATIO N FILED APE.24, 1903.

UNTTEn STATES I Patented December 27, 1904:.

CLARK HEALD BENNETT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

RECLlNlNG-=CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 778,526, dated December27, 1904:.

Application filed April 24, 1903. Serial No. 154,135.

To all 'wiwnt it NMY/Z/ concern:

Be it known that LOLARK HEALD BENNETT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a new and useful Reclining-Chair, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to an improved adjustable chair, and has for itsobject to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient chair in whichthe chair back and seat may be easily and readily adjusted at anydesired angle with respect to the frame and to each other.

A further object of the invention is to provide means for adjusting theback independently of the seat, and at the same time to permit the seatto be raised or lowered and arranged at any angle with relation to theback, thereby preventing any tendency to slide forward in the seat andinsuring perfect comfort to the occupant.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended, itbeing understood that various changes in form, proportion, and minordetails of construction may be resorted to without departing from thespirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional viewof a chair provided with an adjustable support constructed in accordancewith my invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing in detail the backand seat in the adjusted position. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation, and Fig.i is a perspective view, of a modified form of the invention.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures of the drawings.

The body or frame of the chair, which may be of the ordinary form andconstruction, consists of the side pieces 2, formed of wood or othersuitable material, and each including an arm-rest at and a side rail 5,connecting the front and rear supporting-legs 6 and 7. Pivotallysupported between the side rails 5 at the front of the frame, by meansof pins or a rod 8, are the side bars 9 of the seat-frame, the oppositeends of said bars being rabbeted, as shown, and pivoted in any suitablemanner to the correspondingly-rabbeted ends of the side rails 10 of theback. The rear ends 11 of the side pieces 2 are curved, as shown, andextend some distance beyond the rear supporting-legs 7, and formed insaid side pieces are segmental grooves or channels 12, adapted toreceive the projecting ends 13 of an adjusting-rod 14:, passing throughsuitable openings in the side rails 10 of the pivoted back. The lowerwall of the groove or channel 12 is provided with a number of radiatingnotches or pockets 15, adapted to receive the projecting end 18 of therod 14, and by means of which the pivoted back is adjusted independentlyof the seat at any desired angle or inclination with respect to theframe, while the seat remains in the same, or substantially the same,horizontal plane. Arranged at intervals between the notches or pockets15 and communicating With the segmental groove or channel 12 areconverging slots 16, gradually increasing in depth from the top of thegroove or channel to the bottom thereof, and by means of which theseat-frame may be raised or lowered and adjusted at any angle withrelation to the back.

In operation when it is desired to adjust the pivoted back the endthereof is lifted upwardly until the projecting end 13 of theadjusting-rod clears the notches or pockets 15, when said back may beswung upwardly or downwardly, as the case may be, in the groove orchannel 12, using the pivotal pin 17 as a center, and locked at thedesired angle by causing the end of the adjusting-rod to engage thecorresponding notch or pocket. The rear end of the seat-frame may belowered when desired and arranged at any angle with respect to the back,by lifting the projecting end 13 of the adjusting-rod out of engagementwith the notches or pockets, and adjusting the back until the end of therod let is brought into alinement with any one of the converging slots16, when the seat-frame may be swung downwardly on the rod or pin 8until the end of the adjusting-rod engages the bottom of the slot,thereby locking the seat in its adjusted position.

The adjusting-recesses may be lined with metal or other suitablematerial to prevent wearing of the same, or, if desired, instead offorming said recesses in the frame of the chair a metal plate or casting18, having said grooves or recesses formed therein, may be secured inany suitable manner to the inner sides of the frame, as clearly shown inFig. 4: of the drawings.

If desired, instead of using the rods or pins 8 and 17 for pivotallysupporting the back and seat, ordinary or specially-eonstructed hingesmay be employed, and in some cases the segmental slots, as well as theradiating pockets and grooves, may extend entirely through the frame orcasting, the end of the rod la likewise extending through the frame andengaging said adjusting-recesses.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that l have provided anextremely simple, inexpensive, and efficient adjustable sup port forchairs by means of which the back may be adjusted at any angle orinclination independently of the seat, while the seat may be raised orlowered at will to suit the occupant.

Having thus described the invention, what 1 claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. An adjustable chair comprising a frame,

aseat pivoted to the front of the frame, a swinging back pivoted to therear end of the seat, a rod carried by the back, a segmental groove orchannel formed in the frame and provided with aplurality of convergingslots or pockets communicating with the groove or channel and varying indepth from the top of the groove to the bottom thereof, said slots orpockets being adapted to receive the .rod.

2. An adjustable chair comprising a frame, a seat pivoted to the frame,a swinging back pivoted to the seat, a rod or pin carried by the back, amember provided with a segmental groove 01' recess and having a numberof converging slots or pockets of varying depth communicating therewith,the lower wall of the groove or channel being provided with recesses ofuniform depth adapted to receive the pin or rod.

3. An adjustable chair comprising a frame, a seat pivoted to the frame,a swinging back pivoted to the seat, a rod or pin carried by the back,and a member provided with a segmental groove or recess and having anumber of converging slots or pockets of varying depth communicatingtherewith.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aflixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CLARK HEALD BENNETT.

Vitnesses:

JAMES A. MAsoN, ANNA DUBOFF.

